Guide / marketplace selling
Amazon inventory management software, free
You can manage Amazon inventory for $0 — Seller Central's own views cover the marketplace basics. What free does not cover is the rest of your business: other channels, purchasing, and the books. Here is where each option genuinely stops.
The key facts
- The genuinely free option: Amazon's own Seller Central inventory views — replenishment prompts, FBA stock levels, listings. It ships with the seller account.
- What free does not cover: multi-channel stock truth, purchase orders to your suppliers, and a clean handoff to accounting.
- BSimple's honest position: BSimple is not free, and it does not sync with the Amazon marketplace — no native Amazon order import. Its job is the record behind the store.
- Who it suits: wholesalers, manufacturers and distributors who sell through marketplaces but run stock, purchasing and invoicing for the whole business in one place.
- Context: the full inventory system holds the wider system, this page one stop in it.
- 01The key facts
- 02What the free route actually covers
- 03How BSimple fits marketplace sellers — honestly
- 04Choosing without the marketing
What the free route actually covers
For a seller whose only channel is Amazon and whose only stock question is "what is in FBA right now?", Seller Central's inventory tools are a real answer: they show fulfilment-centre quantities, flag low stock against sales pace, and track listings. Paid third-party tools mostly add forecasting, repricing and advertising analytics on top.
The free route stops being enough at predictable points: the day you sell on a second channel (your own store, another marketplace, wholesale customers) and the two systems disagree about quantities; the day you need purchase orders against supplier lead times rather than Amazon's replenishment prompts; and the day your accountant wants numbers that did not come from a CSV you assembled by hand.
How BSimple fits marketplace sellers — honestly
We build BSimple, so weigh that. It is not free — plans start at $180/month AUD with every feature in the core plans — and it does not connect to the Amazon marketplace: orders do not auto-import from Amazon. Online store orders from Shopify import by webhook into the same record; Amazon today would be handled outside that flow.
What BSimple does well for a seller who also moves on marketplaces is the operation behind the listings: one live stock record across locations, purchase orders raised from demand, batch and expiry tracking where it matters, invoicing with an accounting handoff to Xero or MYOB, and a customer ordering portal for wholesale buyers. If your core need is marketplace order sync, a marketplace-focused tool is the right call; if it is stock truth for the business behind the marketplace, the free trial is the honest test.
Choosing without the marketing
- One channel, FBA only: stay free as long as you can — Seller Central plus a spreadsheet for costs is a legitimate setup.
- Two or more channels: you need a single stock record before you need another dashboard; overselling is the failure that ends marketplace accounts.
- You make or import what you sell: production batches, supplier purchasing and traceability push you toward business management software rather than seller tools.
- Your accountant works in Xero or MYOB: an operations system that hands off cleanly pays for itself in bookkeeping hours alone.
Adjacent reads: free-to-use inventory software and what product inventory tools cost when they are free, both written to help you stay free longer if free is genuinely working.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there free inventory management for Amazon sellers?
Yes — Seller Central's own inventory views are included with a seller account and cover FBA quantities and replenishment prompts. Third-party free tiers typically cap orders or hold the useful parts (forecasting, multi-channel sync) behind a subscription.
Does BSimple integrate with Amazon?
No — not today. BSimple does not import Amazon marketplace orders. Shopify orders import by webhook into the standard flow, and other channels are handled through the same operational record. If marketplace sync is the primary need, choose a tool built for it.
Does BSimple have a free plan?
No. Plans are Starter $180, Professional $250 and Organisation $399 per month (AUD), with every feature in the core plans. There is a full-product free trial, because inventory software is only worth judging against your own products.
Can BSimple track FBA stock at Amazon warehouses?
Not automatically — Amazon-held stock sits outside BSimple's live quantities unless you maintain it as a location. If most of your stock is in FBA, a seller tool reading Amazon's data directly will reflect reality faster than any external record.
When does a marketplace seller need business management software?
When the business is bigger than the marketplace: wholesale customers, your own production or imports, purchasing against lead times, or stock spread across locations. That is the point where the order management side starts mattering as much as the listings.
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